Alert archive / Oklahoma / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2000
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 4, NWS Shreveport, LA
NWS Shreveport, LA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jan 2, 2000, 11:24 AM CST for McCurtain County, Oklahoma. It was in force for 61 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jan 2, 2000, 11:24 AM CST (17:24 UTC)
- Expired
- Jan 2, 2000, 12:25 PM CST
- In force
- 61 min
- Issued by
- NWS Shreveport, LA
- Area
- Whole counties
County McCurtain County, OK
The radar
The Western Arkansas radar (KSRX), 136 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 17:26 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Shreveport, LA (KSHV), launched 12:00Z, 5.4 hours before the alert went out and 205 km from the middle of its area. This is the routine balloon launch nearest before it, the air the forecaster had in hand, not a measurement taken for the alert.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 91 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -289 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 710 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 48 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 258 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 340 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.2
The text
The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this severe thunderstorm warning went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.
NWS Shreveport, LA wrote its last area forecast discussion before this severe thunderstorm warning went out at Jan 2, 10:30 AM CST, 54 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jan 2, 10:30 AM CST, 54 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SHREVEPORT LA 1030 AM CST SUN JAN 02 2000 MORNING SURFACE ANALYSIS SHOWED PRESSURE GRADIENT SLACKING OFF SOMEWHAT OVER WESTERN PORTIONS OF NORTHEAST TEXAS AND SOUTHEAST OKLAHOMA THUS WILL ADJUST WIND FORECAST DOWN THESE AREAS IN UPDATE. FAST MOVING SHOWERS AND ISOLATED TSTMS MOVING INTO NW COUNTIES SHOULD BEGIN TO WEAKEN AS THEY MOVE RAPIDLY NORTHEAST. THUS WILL NOT ADJUST POP MUCH FOR THE AFTERN,OON. RECORD HIGH TEMPS STILL A POSSIBLE AS CLOUDS BREAKUP THIS AFTERNOON...THUS NO CHANGES TO THE PREDICTED HIGHS. .SHV...NONE.
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Jan 2, 10:00 AM CST, 1 hour 24 minutes before
ARZ050-051-059>061-070>073-LAZ001>006-010>014-017>022-OKZ077-TXZ096- 097-108>112-124>126-136>138-149>153-165>167-021700- THUNDERSTORM OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SHREVEPORT LA 1000 AM CST SUN JAN 02 2000 MOISTURE WAS INCREASING ACROSS THE FOUR STATE REGION IN ADVANCE OF A COLD FRONT. THE ATMOSPHERE IS ALSO EXPECTED TO BECOME INCREASINGLY UNSTABLE THIS AFTERNOON WITH A GOOD CHANCE FOR THUNDERSTORM DEVELOPMENT. A FEW STORMS MAY BECOME SEVERE BY LATE AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT...MAINLY ACROSS THE NORTHERN HALF OF THE FOUR STATE REGION. IF SEVERE STORMS DO DEVELOP... DAMAGING WIND WILL BE THE MAIN THREAT. HOWEVER SOME HAIL COULD OCCUR IN THE STRONGEST STORMS. ACTIVATION OF STORM SPOTTE R NETWORKS...HAM RADIO OPERATORS...AND EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT PERSONNEL MAY BE REQUIRED LATE THIS AFTERNOON THROUGH TONIGHT.
Nearby
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Sources
The product and its follow-ups from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service and Storm Prediction Center text; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.